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According to Deadline...

The founders of Facebook aren’t the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London’s Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights to the Ken Auletta book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it. They will use the book as the blueprint for a feature film that tells the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and the fast rise of the juggernaut web business that made them billionaires. (...)

“It’s about these two young guys who created a company that changed the world, and how the world in turn changed them,” London told me. “The heart of the movie is their wonderful edict, don’t be evil. At a certain point in the evolution of a company so big and powerful, there are a million challenges to that mandate ...”

Also see the completely hypotethical Who’d play Who in Google the Movie.

[Image from the book cover. Thanks Sam!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin:

Google CEO Believes That in the Future, We May Be Automatically Allowed to Change Our Names to Escape Online PastAugust 18

Eric Schmidt talked to the Wall Street Journal:

“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.

(Would that even be enough to escape online detectives or future AIs which compare portrait photos, analyze a person’s defining sentence structures and word usage, their location, social network connections and so on?)

[Thanks TomHTML!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google CEO Believes That in the Future, We Ma ... | Comments]

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German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street ViewAugust 18

Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps. Jens believes that for the internet “we must apply the same rules as we do in the real world. Our right to take panoramic snapshots, for instance, or to take photographs in public spaces, both base laws which determine that one may photograph those things that are visible from public streets and places.”

Jens says that for his believe in the right of photographing in public places, as last resort he’s even willing to go to jail. Spiegel says Jens already found over 200 people who want to help out in this project and look for removed locations in Google Street View, as there’s no official list of such places published by Google.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Building ... | Comments]

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Virus Game Attachments, Or Whatever It IsAugust 18

A Gmail screenshot showing an email urging you to "run with Flavor Flav"

Do these things have a name, and what do they typically do? Gmail is chronically bad at filtering them out (or perhaps they do filter out many but there’s just too much of them). They usually come with an image attached, and as you can see in this case, a SWF attachment.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Virus Game Attachments, Or Whatever It Is | Comments]

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Free SoundsAugust 18

Looking for free sounds for a project of yours... say, atmospheric background noises, or a dog barking, or laughter, piano music, a squeaking door, or anything else? FreeSounds.org is a great collection of Creative Commons licensed WAVs, MP3, AIFF files and more. You can enter a whole lot of things into their search engine and get back a whole lot of great samples. You can hear a preview for every sound, and for downloading a quick registration will do.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Free Sounds | Comments]

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